Water course

WATER COURSE. This term is applied to the flow or movement of the water in rivers, creeks, and other streams.

"In order to constitute a water course the water must have a current. It cannot be stagnant, nor spread out so as to destroy the current.

action of waste, and trespass quare clausum fregit; as likewise trespass on the case for injuries affecting things real, as for nuisances to houses or lands; disturbance of rights of way or of common; obstruction or diversion of ancient water courses.

See also: Will, Were, Writ, Wrong, Way